Nonlinear PDEs, Dynamics and Continuum Physics : AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on Nonlinear PDE's, Dynamics, and Continuum Physics

ISBN-13: 9780821810521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 264 str.

Opis

These are the refereed proceedings of the conference on Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, Dynamics and Continuum Physics which was held at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, from July 19th to July 23rd, 1998. Models examined derive from a wide range of applications, including elasticity, thermoviscoelasticity, granular media, fluid dynamics, gas dynamics and conservation laws. Mathematical topics include existence theory and stability/instability of travelling waves, asymptotic behaviour of solutions to nonlinear wave equations, effects of dissipation, mechanisms of blow-up, well-posedness and regularity, and fractal solutions. The text should be of interest to graduate students and researchers working in nonlinear partial differential equations and applied mathematics.